Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said his National Conference would never allow anyone to divide the state for petty political interests and would continue to safeguard the special status guaranteed under Article 370.

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Monday said that better coordination and joint efforts between the Centre and state governments' was required to deal with the terror attacks such as what has happened in Gurdaspur, Punjab.

In the first major terror strike in Punjab in eight years, heavily-armed militants in Army uniform on Monday sprayed bullets on a moving bus and stormed a police station, killing seven persons, including an SP, and injuring many others in Gurdaspur bordering Pakistan.

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Monday said the timing, methodology and location of the Gurdaspur attack is 'eerily similar' to the attacks in the border belt of Jammu.

Even as leaders of various parties including BJP MP Shatrughan Sinha and its expelled MP Ram Jethmalani, eminent jurists and persons from different walks of life on Sunday submitted a fresh petition to President Pranab Mukherjee requesting him to waive off the death sentence of Yakub Abdul Razak Memon, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah joined the debate over capital punishment to Yakub Memon asking whether the Mumbai blast convict returned to India on the back of an understanding.

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah has said that for India, the Kashmir issue is and should be as important as other issues, whereas in Pakistan, all other issues are prioritised below the Kashmir issue.

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah has said there can be no comparison made between People's Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti and current Chief Minister and her father Mufti Mohammad Sayeed.

National Conference leader and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi for missing the Iftar party hosted by President Pranab Mukherjee on Wednesday.

National Conference leader and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Monday said that he was surprised to see quite a few leaders from the Congress Party, and even more surprised not to see hardly anyone from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed's Iftar party on Sunday evening.

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Sunday said his National Conference (NC) would fight "tooth and nail" any attack on the special status of the state as provided in the Constitution.

Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah sounded cautiously optimistic about the bilateral talks held between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif, dubbing it a 'good first step'.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has taken a jibe at United States presidential candidate Bobby Jindal after the later claimed that non-aligned nations like India are 'desperate' for American leadership.

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday attacked Sajad Gani Lone after the separatist-turned-minister in PDP-BJP government stated that he was close to BJP since the times of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday sought to link the spate of terror attacks in Sopore area with Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar's alleged remark about revival of 'Ikhwanis', an outfit of reformed militants in the state.